No, it isn't some fringe blog run by the impeachment crowd, but rather your friendly supermarket tabloid, The Globe.

The large photo on the cover of most recent edition shows a composed Laura Bush grabbing the arm of her husband, who looks sort of befuddled and limp. The photo was taken at last month's G8 summit in Germany.

The cover also announces that wrestler Chris Benoit and his family were killed by a satanic cult and Camilla went "berserk" over the recent Princess Diana tribute.

So yes, your president's alleged woes now top any posthumous news about that perennial tabloid go-to gal, Princess Diana.

Readers of earlier tab stories will have learned that Laura Bush went into a jealous rage over concern George was getting it on with -- wait for it -- Condoleeza Rice.

What does all this tell us?

Probably nothing about George or Laura Bush, his level of sobriety, health or marital stability. Or Condoleeza Rice, for that matter.

But surely it does say something about us. There can be only two possible reasons these tales are given such play:

Presidential woes sell tabloids, apparently. Clearly The Globe misses the Clintons, big-time. They were a reliable source of weekly drama, and Bill's personal problems had the added bonus of occasionally being true.

You wouldn't think someone as staid and proper as Laura Bush would make for nearly as tantalizing a protagonist in these little morality playlets. But it turns out that anyone can be a tabloid topic provided her name is bracketed with "divorce plans," "binge drinker" and "marriage crumbles!"

One expects The Globe would continue hammering on Bill and Hil. After all, they're still in the news, front and center. Instead, oddly, we get George and Laura. Did the editors perceive we were bored with the Clintons, or that, at this stage, nothing would surprise us about them?

That leads us to this second inescapable conclusion: George Bush's woes sell even more tab loids.

The tabloid folks are pretty astute. They know what sells.

That means they sense readers want articles saying George Bush is in trouble. Readers are receptive to considering his flaws, intrigued with the possibility of a looming downfall, perhaps even yearning to see him fail.

Nearly everything in these Bush stories probably is untrue. Their very existence, though, startlingly trumpets a broader truth: The Globe perceives its readers to be against him.